Table 1. Fields associated with records in the database on habitat use and requirements of important fish species inhabiting the Hudson River estuary
Field Name Content
Author: Name(s) of the author(s) of the particular document.
Year: Year of publication, or year of completion if unpublished.
Title: Title of the particular document.
Type: Type of document, i.e., whether it is a journal article, thesis, etc. For example, since bibliographic format differs for a book by one or more authors, as opposed to an edited book which contains several papers by different authors, this field allows the database program to identify the different types of books (i.e., "Book Type I" and "Book Type II") so that the program can set up the proper bibliographic output.
Title of Type: Title of the type of document, only where the title of the type of document differs from the title of the document itself; i.e., for journal articles, this would include the title of the journal where an article is published.
Volume: Volume number, when applicable.
Pages: Either the page numbers, or number of pages, for the particular document, when known.
Editors: Editors for the document, when applicable.
Publisher: Publisher for the particular document, when applicable.
Geography: One or more items pertaining to the locality (or localities) discussed in, or pertinent to, the document.
Fish Species: Fish species discussed in the document, especially for those 11 species of particular interest. In papers discussing fish species other than the 11, not all species are necessarily included in this field. In most cases, the genus and species, as well as the common name, are entered for each fish.
Hardcopy Y or N: Whether a hardcopy of the document was on hand when the database was created. The papers with "Yes" written in this field are now in a small library under the care of John Boreman. (See new affiliation and e-mail address noted earlier.)
Hardcopy #: Number assigned to the hardcopy, for easy reference.
Notes: Originally intended to contain notes on papers that were read. Mostly, this field has been left blank.
Source: From what paper, person, or place the document was originally found.
Output: Bibliographic format for the document.
Keywords: Keywords for the document. For papers for which a hardcopy is available, keywords are taken from both the text and title. For papers for which a hardcopy is not available, keywords are taken from only the title.